11.02.2015

WOW! So many fabulous entries for our October challenge, and absolutely no sickeningly sweet and cute ones - I'm so proud of you guys! Throughout the year, while we've been admiring all your lusciously macabre makes, we've also been keeping a tally of who got how many votes for how many projects. The dungeon walls have been dripping in blood as we've made notes, mentioned our favourites and drooled over the ones we most loved. After a lot of counting and discussion, and including the October entries, we are so very pleased to announce that our overall winner for the year is

Teresa!

Your projects have constantly amazed us, and we're delighted to confer upon you the title of "Macabre Masterpiece Maker", along with your very own badge. You also get a bunch of goodies specially selected by our grubby Minion paws, and if you let us have your address, we'll send them all via flying monkey. Or, you know, a local postal service ;)

As a special thank you to everyone who entered the October challenge, we'd love it if you all took our October badge and displayed it on your blogs.

And now we come to the sad, serious part of the post. The Minions are tired. We have LOVED working here in the dungeon, and it has been an absolute honour, but the time has come for us to take a long break. Possibly permanent, but we'll never say never. Maybe once we've all holed up and recharged our creep-juices, we'll be back, but, at least for the foreseeable future, the HDH Macabre Monday challenges will be no more. Thank you so much to every single one of you that has danced on the dark side with us, but the music has stopped. We send out messages of creepy love and darkly delicious well-wishes.

10.19.2015

Our theme for this month is simply (grotesque, macabre and creepy) Halloween, but remember that we don't do cute and cuddly here. We want only your freakiest, most macabre and gothic creations. So don;t enter any cutesy pumpkin stuff or you will be removed and haunted by the demons that live in the dungeon, there will be no where to hide.........

The second inspiration post today with some nice projects from the Minions and our guest in the Dungeon Marilyn Girling.

10.05.2015

Yay, it's October, and for the Minions that means Halloween celebrations. Our theme for this month is simply (grotesque, macabre and creepy) Halloween, but remember that we don't do cute and cuddly here. We want only your freakiest, most macabre and gothic creations. We do tend to get interlopers entering here with cute pumpkin cartoons because they see Halloween and assume we have the same rules as everywhere else. The Minions will mutter curses over any unsuitable entries, so beware! And now we have our inspiration pieces.

I'm not sure what's happening with the linky this month - if it isn't here when you enter, just leave a comment with a link. (OOps it was a bit late) There's no random number generator winners here anyway, the Minions look at every entry and vote on their favourites, so it doesn't matter where you leave your entry. Remember, you can enter up to three times a month, but if your entry doesn't follow our rules, we reserve the right to delete it. So, let's see your macabre masterpieces, and Happy Halloween to all!

9.21.2015

Halloween is only 6 weeks away and the minions are preparing for the spookiest time of the year, days get shorter, the dungeon get colder and the dark is winning time to play and scare you.......the nights are drawing in.....

as always interpret anyway you like as long as it is scary, no cute allowed

9.07.2015

It's September, and that means Halloween is fast approaching! Are you ready? We Minions can't wait. But before we get there. we have September's challenge to share with you, and this month's theme is "The Nights Are Drawing In"

As always, feel free to interpret that in any way your gruesome minds desire. We've been joined in the dungeon by Teresa, who was one of the Gruesome Twosome for July. We'll be announcing last month's winners on the 21st September, along with extra inspiration, so check back then.

8.18.2015

We're so sorry this post is a day late - the Minions all get cranky in August - it's been so long since last year's Halloween that we get a bit crotchety and fractious, and deadlines fly out the window. This month, we'd like to see your take on our "Fur and Feathers, Tooth and Claw" challenge. As always, it's open to your own interpretation, just keep it dark and creepy.

This month, we've been joined by An English Lady, who created this wondrous piece.

We also rounded up the votes for last month's Rock and Roll winners. Thanks so much to everyone that entered the challenge, your pieces really made us happy. The Gruesome Twosome for the Rock and Roll challenge are

Take your badge and wear it with pride, and if you'd like to play along with us for the next challenge, please email Mo for details. She's away from the Dungeon at the moment though, so please be patient.

8.03.2015

How in hell did we get to August already? Thank you all VERY much for your entries in our last musically-inspired challenge. As always, you did an amazing job, and we'll be choosing our favourites and drooling over all the awesome creations. The winners will be announced in the next post in two weeks' time.

For this month, the theme is "Fur and Feathers, Tooth and Claw" and you are free to interpret that in any way your twisted mind desires. We have a few inspiration pieces for you just now, but check back later in the month and we'll have even more for you.

HDH Macabre Monday Rules:

2. You have an entire month, to post your creation and please leave a direct-link back here. Please make sure that your blog post / upload has been made AFTER the challenge date... we wanna see fresh stuff, not those from a few weeks ago!!

3. If you upload to any online galleries (TACPCC, S&S, PCP, SCS, etc.), please tag the title using the HDH### moniker.

4. We'll be selecting a wicked winner from all the players of each challenge. At the end of the year all the winners will be compiled and a Master of Macabre will be selected and will receive a little giftie from The Dungeon... this could be digital stamps, handmade items, papers, halloweenie embellishments... you just never know.

5. In your post, please explain how your entry meets the challenge requirements... if you don't follow the challenge requirements, your entry will not be considered for badges or prizes. Also please link back to the HDH challenge so others may find us & play along!